Civics chapter 6 1-2
Terms
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- type of system in early US
- two-party system
- candidates
- people seeking elected office as government's leader
- political party
- group that shares similar ideas about government
- Plurality
- winning more votes or seats than any other party
- 1850 Republicans formed
- Whigs and antislavery Democrats
- Mid 1820s Whigs
- bankers, merchantsm plantation owners
- multiparty
- 3 or more parties compete for control of government
- Federalist Party
- New England merchant and bankers
- Progressives
- third party of Theodore Roosevelt
- Mid 1820s Democrats
- small farmers, working people
- Republicans and Democrats
- these two parties agree about most social issues
- third party
- a minor party that challenges the major parties
- Early Democratic Party
- small farmers, planters, shopkeepers and laborers
- Republicans
- believe in more power to people or state
- continuity of 2-party system
- provided because each party has power some of the time
- Democrats
- believe in more power to federal government
- Majority
- winning more than half of votes cast
- one party system
- party and government nearly the same
- Coalition
- alliance between two parties to command majority of vote
- main difference between parties
- how to achieve their goals: government-run or people-run